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Friday, July 21, 2017

Top Neocons Teaming Up With Prominent Establishment Democratic War Hawks

With New D.C. Policy Group, Dems Continue to Rehabilitate and Unify With Bush-Era Neocons

ONE OF THE most
under-discussed yet consequential changes in the American political
landscape is the reunion between the Democratic Party and the country’s
most extreme and discredited neocons. While the rise of Donald Trump,
whom neocons loathe, has accelerated this realignment, it began long before the ascension of Trump and is driven by far more common beliefs than contempt for the current president.

A
newly formed and, by all appearances, well-funded national security
advocacy group, devoted to more hawkish U.S. policies toward Russia and
other adversaries, provides the most vivid evidence yet of
this alliance. Calling itself the Alliance for Securing Democracy,
the group describes itself as “a bipartisan, transatlantic initiative”
that “will develop comprehensive strategies to defend against, deter,
and raise the costs on Russian and other state actors’ efforts to
undermine democracy and democratic institutions,” and also “will work to
publicly document and expose Vladimir Putin’s ongoing efforts to
subvert democracy in the United States and Europe.”

It is, in fact, the ultimate union of mainstream Democratic foreign
policy officials and the world’s most militant, and
militaristic, neocons. The group is led by two longtime Washington foreign policy hands, one from the establishment Democratic wing and the other a key figure among leading GOP neocons.

The Democrat, Laura Rosenberger, served as a foreign
policy adviser for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and
chief of staff to two Obama national security officials. The Republican
is Jamie Fly, who spent the last four years as counselor for foreign and
national security affairs to one of the Senate’s most hawkish members,
Marco Rubio; prior to that, he served in various capacities in the Bush
Pentagon and National Security Council.

Glenn
Greenwald writes an excellent piece about top neocons (including Bill
Kristol and Mike Chertoff) teaming up with prominent establishment
Democratic war hawks (Laura Rosenberger, Jake Sullivan, and former
acting CIA Director Mike Morrell) to form the Alliance for Securing Democracy,
the group describes itself as “a bipartisan, transatlantic initiative”
that “will develop comprehensive strategies to defend against, deter,
and raise the costs on Russian and other state actors’ efforts to
undermine democracy and democratic institutions,” and also “will work to
publicly document and expose Vladimir Putin’s ongoing efforts to
subvert democracy in the United States and Europe.”

Greenwald
argues and provides convincing evidence that this alliance is not one
of mere opposition or resistance to Trump, but a convergence of
interests that had been building since before Trump even announced his
candidacy:

Democrats and neocons share far more than
revulsion toward Trump; particularly once Hillary Clinton became the
party’s standard-bearer, they share the same fundamental beliefs about
the U.S. role in the world and how to assert U.S. power. In other words,
this alliance is explained by far more than antipathy to Trump.

This is a relatively long piece, but I hope you’ll take the time to read it.